Proto-Altaic: *kalV ( ~ -ĺ-)
Meaning: near, to come near
Russian meaning: близкий, приближаться
Comments: KW 162 (but Turk. *Kāl- 'to stay behind' hardly belongs here), ТМС 1, 369, АПиПЯЯ 292. A Mong.-Tung. isogloss, but, despite Doerfer MT 144, hardly borrowed in TM < Mong.